Registrations for the Regional Congress Against the Death Penalty are open!

9 March 2018

We are pleased to invite you to the African Congress Against the Death Penalty, that will be held in Abidjan, the 9th and 10th April 2018.

The event is organised by ECPM, in partnership with the World Coalition Against The Death Penalty, the FIACAT and the CNDH-CI, under the sponsorship of Norway, Belgium and the European Union.

It will be the largest ever event dedicated to the death penalty on the african soil. More than 300 participants are expected to attend these two days of debates, two official ceremonies of opening and closing, as well as a festive closing evening.

PROGRAMME

A solemn opening ceremony will take place prior to the debates, on 9 April, from 10am to 12pm, at the Conference Centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The closing ceremony will be held at the CRRAE on 10 April, from 4pm to 6pm. It will be followed by a drink and a cultural festive evening at the Institut Français, from 6:30pm to 9pm.

Plenary session – 10 April, CRRAE, from 10am to 12am

“Death penalty, poverty and prison conditions: from a World day to another”

A constant pattern in the use of death penalty is its inextricable connection to poverty. Poverty has a negative impact on every step of the penal procedure and obviously affects living conditions in death row.

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